Tajikistan

• inadequate sanitation facilities;
• increasing levels of soil salinity;
• industrial pollution;
• excessive pesticides

party to:

Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Environmental Modification, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands

signed, but not ratified:

none of the selected agreements

• landlocked;
• mountainous region dominated by the Trans-Alay Range in the north and the Pamirs in the southeast;
• highest point, Qullai Ismoili Somoni (formerly Communism Peak), was the tallest mountain in the former USSR

at birth:

1.05 male(s)/female

under 15 years:

1.02 male(s)/female

15-64 years:

0.99 male(s)/female

65 years and over:

0.79 male(s)/female

total population:

0.99 male(s)/female (2005 est.)

noun:

Tajikistani(s)

adjective:

Tajikistani

conventional long form:

Republic of Tajikistan

conventional short form:

Tajikistan

local long form:

Jumhurii Tojikiston

local short form:

Tojikiston

former:

Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic

• 2 provinces (viloyatho, singular - viloyat) and 1 autonomous province* (viloyati mukhtor);
• Viloyati Mukhtori Kuhistoni Badakhshon* [Gorno-Badakhshan] (Khorugh), Viloyati Khatlon (Qurghonteppa), Viloyati Sughd (Khujand)

note: the administrative center name follows in parentheses

chief of state:

President Emomali RAHMONOV (since 6 November 1994; head of state and Supreme Assembly chairman since 19 November 1992)

head of government:

Prime Minister Oqil OQILOV (since 20 January 1999)

cabinet:

Council of Ministers appointed by the president, approved by the Supreme Assembly

elections:

• president elected by popular vote for a seven-year term;
• election last held 6 November 1999 (next to be held NA 2006);
• prime minister appointed by the president;
• Tajikistan held a constitutional referendum on 22 June 2003 that, among other things, set a limit of two seven-year terms for the president

election results:

Emomali RAHMONOV elected president; percent of vote - Emomali RAHMONOV 97%, Davlat USMON 2%

• Democratic Party or DPT [Mahmadruzi ISKANDAROV];
• Islamic Revival Party [Said Abdullo NURI];
• People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan or PDPT [Emomali RAHMONOV];
• Social Democratic Party or SDPT [Rahmatullo ZOIROV];
• Socialist Party or SPT [Mirhuseyn NAZRIYEV];
• Tajik Communist Party or CPT [Shodi SHABDOLOV]

there are three unregistered political parties:

• Agrarian Party or APT [Hikmatullo NASRIDDINOV];
• Progressive Party [Sulton QUVVATOV];
• Unity Party [Hikmatullo SAIDOV]

chief of mission:

Ambassador Hamrohon ZARIPOV

chancery:

1725 K Street NW, Suite 409, Washington, DC 20006

telephone:

[1] (202) 223-6090

FAX:

[1] (202) 223-6091

chief of mission:

Ambassador Richard E. HOAGLAND

embassy:

• 10 Pavlova Street, Dushanbe, Tajikistan 734003;
• note - the embassy in Dushanbe is not yet fully operational;
• most business is still handled in Almaty at: 531 Sayfullin Street, Almaty, Kazakhstan, telephone 7-3272-58-79-61, FAX 7-3272-58-79-68

mailing address:

use embassy street address

telephone:

[992] (372) 21-03-48, 21-03-52, 24-15-60

FAX:

[992] (372) 21-03-62, 51-00-28

• three horizontal stripes of red (top), a wider stripe of white, and green;
• a gold crown surmounted by seven gold, five-pointed stars is located in the center of the white stripe

lowest 10%:

3.2%

highest 10%:

25.2% (1998)

general assessment:

poorly developed and not well maintained; many towns are not linked to the national network

domestic:

cable and microwave radio relay

international:

• country code - 992;
• linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch;
• Dushanbe linked by Intelsat to international gateway switch in Ankara (Turkey);
• satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 2 Intelsat

total:

482 km

broad gauge:

482 km 1.520-m gauge (2004)

total:

27,767 km

paved:

NA

unpaved:

NA (2000)

• boundary agreements signed in 2002 cede 1,000 sq km of Pamir Mountain range to China in return for China relinquishing claims to 28,000 sq km of Tajikistani lands but neither state has published maps of ceded areas and demarcation has not yet commenced;
• talks continue with Uzbekistan to delimit border and remove minefields;
• disputes in Isfara Valley delay delimitation with Kyrgyzstan

• major transit country for Afghan narcotics bound for Russian and, to a lesser extent, Western European markets;
• limited illicit cultivation of opium poppy for domestic consumption;
• Tajikistan seizes roughly 80 percent of all drugs captured in Central Asia and stands third worldwide in seizures of opiates (heroin and raw opium)